We’re not ready for climate change

• Globally, 2018 is shaping up to be the fourth-hottest year on record. (The hotter years were the three previous ones.)

The disruptions to everyday life have been far-reaching: wildfires in California, dozens of heat-related deaths in Japan, a heat wave on four continents that has taken a toll on crops and the electricity grid.

A lake that was once part of the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan. Muynak, a nearby city that was once a port town, is now 75 miles from the sea. It has become a tourist destination because “a lot of people want to see an ecological crisis.”CreditSergey Ponomarev for The New York Times

Nailing down a NATO deal

• U.S. national security officials were so concerned that President Trump might upend a policy agreement at last month’s NATO meeting that they pushed the military alliance’s ambassadors to finish the deal beforehand.

John Bolton, the national security adviser, directed the effort to reach the agreement, which achieved several crucial NATO goals, including a pledge to build up a force to quickly respond to any attack on an alliance member.

• The summit meeting occurred weeks after a Group of 7 event at which Mr. Trump refused to sign a joint communiqué, escalated a trade war and publicly derided Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada.

Mystery at a New Mexico compound

Eleven other children and five adults were living at the compound, which was well supplied with guns and ammunition but had little food. Sheriff’s officers searched the property last week.

• The dead child is believed to be that of a man who was arrested at the site. Prosecutors said he was training one of the other children in the use of an assault rifle “in preparation for future school shootings,” the child’s foster parent reported.

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The compound in Amalia, N.M., where a boy’s body was found.CreditTaos County sheriff's office, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Trump’s in-laws become U.S. citizens

• The parents of Melania Trump, Viktor and Amalija Knavs, obtained U.S. citizenship on Thursday through a system that President Trump has repeatedly denounced and called “chain migration.”

The immigration program allows adult American citizens to obtain residency for their relatives. Mrs. Trump and her parents are from Slovenia.

Listen to ‘The Daily’: The Trump Voters We Don’t Talk About

New data offers a more nuanced look at this group beyond “white men without a college degree.”

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Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday offered more detail about President Trump’s proposed Space Force, a sixth branch of the military that would “prepare for the next battlefield.” Initially reluctant Pentagon officials have lined up behind the proposal, which faces a divided Congress.CreditChip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Lauren Katzenberg, our At War editor, recommends this piece from ProPublica: “Isaac Arnsdorf’s investigation reveals the disturbing influence of three private sector executives, known as the Mar-a-Lago crowd, on Veterans Affairs. (One is the Marvel Entertainment chairman, Ike Perlmutter.) These ‘shadow rulers,’ as the headline calls them, are close allies of President Trump who have been bombarding V.A. officials with demands, and who have intervened in and stalled overhauls in veteran policy for their own personal benefit.”

Back Story

The red carpets, more than 200 screenings and hundreds of thousands of euros in prizes are a far cry from the festival’s origins during the siege of Sarajevo and the Bosnian War in the 1990s.

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Setting up for an outdoor screening at last year’s Sarajevo Film Festival.CreditElvis Barukcic/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

In 1993, Haris Pasovic, a Bosnian director, helped organize a gathering called “Beyond the End of the World,” a title inspired by one of the screened films: “Until the End of the World,” by the German director Wim Wenders.

At the time, a reporter asked Mr. Pasovic, “Why are you holding a film festival in the middle of a war?”

“Why are they holding a war in the middle of a film festival?” he replied. In an interview the next year, he said, “People have to have food for their souls.”

The gathering lasted 10 days, but screenings continued through a separate organization, culminating in the inaugural Sarajevo Film Festival in 1995. About 15,000 people risked their safety to watch 37 films from over 15 countries, some of which were smuggled in by their own directors.